Machine for attaching fly-strips to paper boxes.



No. 533,413.- Patented nec. 5,1899. c. w. HoBBs.

MACHINE FUR ATTACHING FLY STRIPS T0 PAPER BOXES.

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MACHINE FOR ATTACHING FLYwSTRIPS TO PAPER BOXES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent I\To 638,413, dated December 5, 1899- Application led April 9, 1898. Serial No. 676,998. lio model.)

.To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CLARENCE' w. Homes, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Worcester, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machines for At- J[aching Fly-Strips to Paper Boxes, of which the following is a specification, accompanied by drawings, forming a part of the same, in Which- Figure l represents a side View of a boxcovering machine embodying my improved mechanism for pasting and applying the strip of lace-paper or fly to a paper box. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the same, representing a strip of lace-paper applied to the paper box as a ily-strip simultaneously With the operation of covering the box. Fig. 3 is a top view of the pasting mechanism for pasting the fly-strip, shown on a larger scale than in the preceding figures.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the different figures.

My present invention hasfor its object to provide means for pasting a ly-strip of lacepaper or plain paper and applying the same to a paper box simultaneously with the operation of covering the box with covering-paper 5 and it consists in providing means for pasting one edge of the ily-strip along a narrow margin, comprising a pasting-roll partially immersed in adhesive material and rotating in contact with the edge of the fly-strips and means for supporting the remaining Width of the fly-strip in a plane corresponding to the periphery of the pasting-roll in contact with the fly-strip; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter described, and set forth in the annexed claims.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a supporting table or framework upon which the cutting and pasting mechanisms are mounted.

B denotesacoil of covering-paper B', which is pasted upon one side bya rotating pastingroller B2, partially immersed in adhesive material contained in the paste-box B3.

C denotes a revolving box-form upon which the box to be covered is supported, andD denotes a cutting mechanism for severing the covering-strip.

The above-enumerated parts are common in box-covering machines and may be of any known form of construction and arrangement.

E denotes a coil of lace-paper or plain paper designed for the fly of a paper box. The iiystrip E' is taken from the coil E over the paste-roller E, which rotates in a box F', containing adhesive material in contact with a portion of the paste-roller. The paste-roller F is in contact with and applies paste to a narrow margin upon one edge cf the fly-strip E as it is conducted from the coil E. The remaining width of the fly-strip rests upon a roller G, capable of rotating about an axis coincident with the axis of the paste-roller F and having the same diameter and forming a support for the unpasted portion of the iiystrip in the same plane as the periphery of the pasting-roller F, which is in contact with the edge of the ily-strip. The strip of covering-paper B', conducted from the coil B, and the ily-strip E' are arranged in proper alinement with each other and with the box-form C, so that the covering-paper B' will be applied to cover the outer surface of the paper box held upon the form C, and the pasted edge of the fly-strip E' will be applied to the top edge of the box, with its pasted edge between the edge of the box-body and the edge of the covering-strip, the covering-strip B' overlapping the fly-strip E' the width of its pasted margin.

The covering-paper B' and fly-strip E' are supported upon rods J J' as they pass from the pasting mechanisms through a cutting mechanism D, of any known form, to the boxform C.

The operation of my improved machine is as follows: A strip of covering-paper B' of the proper width to cover the side of the box is conducted from the coil B over the pasteroller B2 and through the cutting mechanism D, and a strip E of lace-paper or plain paper, as the case may be, of sufficient width to form the fly of the paper box is conducted from the coil E over the paste-roller F, running in the paste-box F', and the supporting-roller G, running outside the paste-box. VThe coveringstrip B' overlaps the pasted edge of the iiystrip E', and both strips are adapted to wind about the paper box held upon the form C by rotating the box-form in the usual and Wellknown manner in box-covering machines, causing the sides of the box to be covered by the covering-strip in the usual manner, with the edge of the fly-strip E pasted to the upper edge of the box and overhanging the box, so as to be turned in over the edge of the box and form a flyin the usual man ner. By means of my improved machine the covering-strip and iiy-paper are both applied simultaneously and at one operation to the outside of the box held upon the form C.

The iiy-strip requires no previous preparation, and the cost of applying it to the box during the operation of covering the box does not increase the cost of manufacture. c

I do not confine myself to the use of a rotating roll for the purpose of supporting the unpasted portion of the fly-strip, but I deem it preferable, as it reduces the friction upon the iiy-strip and allows it to run in accurate alinement with the strip of covering-paper.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. In a box-covering machine, the combination With a coil of covering-paper, of pasting mechanism by which paste is applied to one side of the paper stri p taken from said coil, of a coil containing a fly-strip arranged in alinement With said covering-coil so that the iiystrip Will be delivered With one of its edges overlapping the pasted surface of the coveri-ng-strp,a narrow paste-roll arranged to apply paste to the margin only of the strip which overlaps the pasted surface of the coveringstrip and a support at one side of said narrow pasting-roll arranged to support the unpasted margin of the ily-strip in the plane of the periphery of the narrow paste-roll, substantially as described.

2. In a box-covering machine, the combination of the paper coil B containing a coveringstrip B', the paste-roll B2 running in a pastebox B3 and arranged to apply paste to the under side ofthe covering-strip B, a supportingrod J, paper coil E containing the fly-strip E held in alinement With the covering-strip B so that one edge of the iiy-strip Will overlap the pasted edge of the covering-strip, a narrow paste-roll F running in the paste-box F and arranged to apply paste to the under side of the fly-strip E of the margin only Which overlaps the pasted surface of the coveringroll and a supporting-rod J by which the covering-strip and fly-strip are brought into contact and the supporting-roll G at one side the narrow paste-roll F,Whereby one margin of the y-stri p is supported while paste is being applied to the opposite margin, substantially as described.

Dated this 15th day of March, 1898.

CLARENCE W. HOBBS.

Witnesses:

RUFUs B. FOWLER, M. C. PRICE. 

